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SUMMARY:Literary Pachanga
DESCRIPTION:Literary Pachanga showcases three Chicano authors and a singer-songwriter \nPegasus Books celebrates Mexican American Literature with a Literary Pachanga for the community on Wednesday\, July 26. Chicano writers Alan Chazaro\, Sara Campos\, Christine Granados and Northern California singer/songwriter Alyssa Granados will perform from their collective works. The event is free and open to the public. \nAlan Chazaro is a first-generation Chicano with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Veracruz. His poetry has been featured in the Intro Journals Project from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and has also appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Review\, Huizache\, BorderSenses\, Pilgrimage Magazine\, and other publications. He continues to teach high school in California\, and likes to doodle while travelling new cities.\nhttp://agchazaro.wixsite.com/poetry \nSara Campos has published fiction\, poetry and nonfiction articles in numerous publications including\, St. Anne’s Review\, Rio Grande Review\, Literary Mama\, 580-Split\, Colorlines\, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the recipient of the Letras Latinas Fellowship\, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant\, residencies with Hedgebrook\, the Anderson Center and fellowships with Macondo and VONA. She co-directs the New American Story Project\, an online storytelling project on unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America.\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-campos-83571218/ \nChristine Granados has been a Spur Award finalist and received Sandra Cisneros’ literary prize the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award in 2006 for her first book of fiction Brides and Sinners in El Chuco\, published by the University of Arizona Press and her stories have been in many anthologies. She will read from and discuss her second book\, a novella and short stories about strong Mexican American women who live along the border\, titled Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children.\nhttp://christinegranados.com \nAlyssa Granados’ diverse catalog of guitar styles come from a range of influences spanning from folk to dub. She is half of the Electronic Funk duo Dreamers Paradise out of Boise\, ID.\nhttps://soundcloud.com/cadence_boise
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pachanga/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ARC Youth Fest 2017
DESCRIPTION:ARC Youth Fest is the only outdoor summer art festival put on for youth by youth artists. Artists range from 13 to 24 years old. \nARC Youth Fest takes place on Saturday\, July 29th in front of Oakland’s City Hall. From 11AM to 5PM some of the hottest aspiring and emerging artists will perform and showcase their work. \n\nMusic\, DJs and MCs\, dance\, visual arts\, fashion\, culinary arts\, film/TV production\, health/wellness and fitness\, including a Kids Zone and more.FEATURES: \nCatch the Turf Inc dance battle\, iVisionary music competition\, two fashion shows\, free makeovers and haircuts\, free food samples and much more! We will have live performances by last year’s youth stars\, along with emerging artists Neah Rose and Mani Draper and band. Last year we also featured IAMSU and Netta Brielle. \nPARTNERS: \nThis year\, our partners include City of Oakland Parks and Recs\, Clorox\, EOYDC\, Flight Deck\, Trap Art\, Oakland Tech Fashion Art and Design Academy and more. \nAdmission is free to students or bring donated food items for free entry. \nFor more info\, go to www.arcyouthfest.com. \n#sooaklandweekend  #foryouthbyyouth  #arcyouthfest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arc-youth-fest-2017/
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaze\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Oakland":MAILTO:events@arcoakland.org
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Freedom" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:In the patriotic month of July\, in honor of our 6th Anniversary\, Saturday Night Special is celebrating “freedom.” Freedom of self expression\, stories about freedom\, poems about liberty lost\, a lack of supervision\, a pet named Freedom you once loved\, a pot-bellied pig\, perhaps? Put on your party hat and bring us your true\, personal\, political\, confessional\, hilarious\, surreal\, and/or fictional accounts of FREEDOM. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur July features are: Bronwyn Emery and René Vaz\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, July 29th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nBronwyn Emery is the founder and facilitator of To Live and Write in Alameda\, a writing community that exists on Facebook and IRL. She is a former columnist and Our Town editor at the Tracy Press\, and ghostwriter for self-help gurus. She has mentored new writers since 2002 and is currently a writing coach\, developmental editor\, novelist\, and co-host of the monthly Story Slam at Books\, Inc. Alameda. \nRené Vaz is a Bay Area writer. He curates the reading series Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays. He is a lecturer at San Francisco State University and is committed to providing space for POC/ marginalized voices. His book\, “The Planet of the Dead”\, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-freedom-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry & Place Reading
DESCRIPTION:Our Summer Poetry & Place reading will be on 6/30 featuring Robert Hass & Michelle Lin. All ages open mic. Hope to see you at the Arlington Clubhouse!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-place-reading/
LOCATION:Arlington Clubhouse\, 1120 Arlington Blvd 94530\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Howell\, Millar\, + Laux
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, July 30th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Christopher Howell\, Joseph Millar and Dorianne Laux. \nChristopher Howell’s new book of poems is Love’s Last Number. Laura Kasischke says\, “In these gemlike meditations on love and time and the human condition—and so much more—Christopher Howell’s vision is nearly mystical\, his music almost entirely uncanny…There is a distance in this tone that is all about clarity\, and a proximity that is all about intimacy\, humility.” He has published ten collections\, most recently Gaze and Dreamless and Possible\, a volume of new and selected poems. His honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, two Washington State Book Awards\, and three Pushcart Prizes. \nJoseph Millar’s new book of poems is Kingdom. Marie Howe says\, “If this is a kingdom then Joe Millar may be one of the kings. He’s lived enough to be both man and woman now\, and he’s learned to sing so sweet a song it might be rising from the broken branches and the bones of the lost horses\, or the desert stars\, or the scars of the middleweight boxers who finally went home.”  He’s published three previous books of poems\, most recently Blue Rust\, and he’s won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nJoseph Millar and Dorianne Laux will be reading from their new chapbook of poems about music\, Duet\, as well as from their own books. \nDorianne Laux’s fifth book of poems is The Book of Men\, winner of the Paterson Prize. Alan Shapiro says\, “The Book of Men could just as easily have been called The Book of Empathy\, or The Book of Negative Capability\, or The Book of Intimate Awareness of Who We Are and How We Got To Be This Way. Whether she is writing about men or women\, the powerful or the powerless\, the present day or the past\, Laux observes\, evokes and meditates with profound compassion and understanding for the delicate complexities of the human heart.” Her previous collections are Awake\, What We Carry\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, Smoke\, and Facts About the Moon\, which won the Oregon Book Award. Among her other honors are a Pushcart Prize\, two appearances in Best American Poetry\, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-christopher-howell-joseph-millar-and-dorianne-laux/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Moor
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning journalist Robert Moor discusses his critically-acclaimed book\, On Trails: An Exploration. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award and named One of the Best Books of 2016 by The Boston Globe\, The Seattle Times\, Booklist\, and more\, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world–from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents\, from interstate highways to the Internet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-moor/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around — 3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Cassandra Dallett + Bruce Isaacson
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, August 6th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Cassandra Dallett and Bruce Isaacson. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-cassandra-dallett-and-bruce-isaacson/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Justin McFarr
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes first time novelist Justin McFarr as we help him launch The Bear Who Broke the World. \nJustin McFarr grew up in the Bay Area during the 70’s and 80’s as a latchkey kid. He is a proud graduate of both UCLA and the MPW program at USC\, and has attended the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. His short stories have been published in numerous magazines and online journals\, and will be collected in the forthcoming Controlled Chaos: Stories from Wheeler Street Press. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his family. The Bear Who Broke The World is his first novel. \nAbout The Bear Who Broke the World: \n1976. Berkeley\, California. 11-year-old Daedalus Stephen O’Neill and his 6-year-old brother Demian spend the Bicentennial summer struggling to find normalcy and refuge from the dangerous indifference of the adults that surround them. With an impetuous mother\, an unpredictable boyfriend\, and a menacing neighbor to protect themselves against\, the brothers are forced to navigate their own way through an unrestrained world of drugs\, alcohol\, and sexual activity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/justin-mcfarr/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Larsen w/ Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation and DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes poet and translator David Larsen to the store to discuss his translation of 10th-century Arabic lexicographer Ibn Khālawayh’s Names of the Lion. He will be in conversation with Stephen Sparks. \nNames of the Lion is a thesaurus\, a word list\, a bestiary with only one beast. It was written as a virtuoso display of philological learning by a man who considered himself the greatest living authority on the Arabic language\, and was so considered by others. At the time of Ibn Khālawayh’s life and work\, the study of the Arabic language had reached a mature phase\, but although the works of Ibn Khālawayh are steeped in this tradition\, they depart from received models. His longest and most innovative text\, The Book of “Not in the Arabic Language\,” is organized aphoristically into short chapters. Each chapter begins with the phrase “In the Arabic language\, there is no X\, except for…” followed by all the exceptions to the stated rule. Names of the Lion is a chapter from this work\, which begins: “In all the speech of the Arabs and all books of Arabic philology put together\, there are no names for the lion besides what I have written for you.” Hundreds of words for lion then follow. Ibn Khālawayh produced word-lists on other subjects (names of the wind\, of the sword\, of honey\, etc). It was a well-established genre of linguistic scholarship\, and it’s not clear that lions were a particular obsession with Ibn Khālawayh. However\, the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) was endemic to Syria\, and a real-life scourge of the pastoral economy\, and no one who encounters a lion in the wild ever forgets it. \nIs Names of the Lion a work of literature? If by “literature” you mean an intentional work of poetry or artistic prose\, then it’s not. But that’s a narrow definition: “Pleasure reading” is a much broader category than that\, at least for the seekers and dreamers and students of the world. Formally\, the text will be familiar to everyone. It is a list\, and there is abundant precedent for the list as a poetic form. In our day\, the list poem is a standard exercise of Creative Writing because it never fails to yield interesting results. So even though Ibn Khālawayh had no conception of Names of the Lion as a work of poetry\, to enjoy it as one is practically irresistable. You could call it Ibn Khālawayh’s answer to poetry\, even his vengeful attack on it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-larsen-w-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents
DESCRIPTION:SPD Presents is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.\n~*~ \nMAYA SIMONE loves witches and zines and really wants to know your hot take on Avril Lavigne’s “sk8er boi.” She is a rising senior at Penn in Philadelphia and is so excited to leave soon. Shen she is not doing student things\, she maintains a grave garden in a cemetery. She hopes in the future to work in the literary community and live in a small town with her family of three dogs. \nEDDIE HOPELY is a writer and researcher now living in Oakland. \nLAUREN LEVIN is the author of The BraidD (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming Justice Peace/Transmission (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family. \n~*~ \nFounded in 1969\, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. For more information\, visit http://spdbooks.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170810T190000
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SUMMARY:Yalie Kamara
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Yalie Kamara to the store to discuss and sign her chapbook\, When the Living Sing\, on Thursday\, August 10th at 7:00 pm. \n“When The Living Sing is a stunning and lush collection\, teeming with bright music. Here\, the mouth is a doorway and a dirge to what beckons and consumes the speaker’s tongue declaring\, ‘I become a lyre bird mimicking their sound\, unsure of what grief means in the hyphen of my African and American throat.’ Here\, the ‘pulpy lava bullet’ of the Malombo Fruit tethers memory to family in Sierra Leone and Oakland\, California. Here\, the elegy is housed in the sanctuary of praise by traversing the distances woven with slices of Krio\, Black death\, and always finding joy amidst sorrow. Yalie Kamara is a poet with a gorgeous and wild imagination that conjures the ‘opal hue of God’s touch’ and the ‘blueberry gauze of nightfall.’ I never wanted the chapbook to end.” —Tiana Clark\, author of Equilibrium \nYalie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American and native of Oakland\, California. Prior to becoming an MFA candidate at Indiana University\, she worked in the service of youth and adults all over the state of California in the areas of educational access\, nonprofit management\,and community-based art facilitation. She holds Bachelors of Arts degrees in Languages and Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a Masters of Arts degree in French from Middlebury College. Among her publications\, Yalie’s work has appeared in Vinyl Poetry and Prose\, and Entropy Mag. She is a Callaloo Fellow\, is a 2017 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yalie-kamara/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christine Evelyn Volker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Christine Evelyn Volker to the store to discuss and sign\, Venetian Blood\, on Sunday\, August 13th\, at 3:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nA captivating tapestry of murder\, betrayal and family\, Venetian Blood is the story of one woman’s brave quest for the truth—before it’s too late. \nIt’s 1992 when Anna Lucia Lottol visits Venice to see an old friend and escape her failing\, childless marriage. Instead of finding serenity however\, Anna encounters a frightening world where she becomes a ruthless detective’s murder suspect. Dragged into the police station\, she lies about being in Venice the night before. Terrified of foreign justice\, she lies too\, about knowing the dead man—a money launderer from Venice who had made threats after he’d seduced her at financial conference in Milan. Anna\, talented in mathematics and physics\, working in anti-money laundering for the US Treasury Department\, struggles to make sense of an irrational city filled with illusions. With murders of long ago spiraling into the present-day and police working overtime to uncover her lies\, how can Anna find a way to clear her name\, identify the killer and keep her job? She teams up with her old friend\, and together they attempt to pry clues from uncooperative characters—some even denying what Anna has seen or heard. Bewildered\, she can’t tell if they are hiding something or if she is losing touch with reality. As she resists the charms of an Italian banker\, she must ask herself\, “Who is friend\, who is foe?” Anna—nearly killed by an unseen attacker\, beset by haunting dreams\, racing to unlock secrets—unleashes a force bent on destroying her. As the mystery turns personal\, will Anna save herself? Will she vanquish both her enemies and her darkest fears? \nCapturing the delicate beauty of Venice\, the novel is a dark love poem to the city whose sinuous canals it traces. Suspenseful and evocative\, this multi-layered work is an intimate portrayal of a woman’s perilous voyage of self-discovery. The reader is plunged into Venice’s tangled web of alleys and canals\, but soon realizes that the connections do not stop at the shores of the Adriatic. The fates of creatures far away\, the tales of people without a voice\, reverberate through the pages. \nChristine Evelyn Volker was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. After studying for her undergraduate degree from University at Albany in Spanish Language and Literature\, and securing an MLS\, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. She retooled herself with an MBA in Finance from UC Berkeley and worked in corporate and international lending. Her career brought her to live in Milan and London. An intrepid traveler\, she is writing full time\, thanks to the support of her husband\, Stephan\, a public interest environmental lawyer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-evelyn-volker/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katharine Harer + Judy Bebelaar
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a poetry reading by Katharine Harer Jazz and Other Hot Subjects\, and BAWP poet Judy Bebelaar\, Walking Across the Pacific\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-harer-judy-bebelaar/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Margaret Wilkerson Sexton to the store to discuss and sign\, A Kind of Freedom\, on Tuesday\, August 15th\, at 7:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nEvelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society\, and when she falls for no-account Renard\, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.\nIn 1982\, Evelyn’s daughter\, Jackie\, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family\, he returns\, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again.\nJackie’s son\, T.C.\, loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina\, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges\, T.C. decides to start over–until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.\nFor Evelyn\, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality\, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans and studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. A recipient of the Lombard fellowship\, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing her first manuscript\, A Kind of Freedom\, which received an honorable mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, Limestone Journal\, and Broad! Magazine\, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #27
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-27/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170816T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170815T113359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T113359Z
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SUMMARY:Lucky Seventh Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate our seventh year of presenting the diverse voices of the East Bay!!! The theme is luck! We’re popping bottles of champagn and serving special treats. It’s all on us. Come hear seven extraordinary readers: \nVernon Keeve III\nJulie Thi Underhill\nArisa White\nJulian Mithra\nThea Matthews\nJoshua Escobar\nLark Omura \nHosted and curated by the sparkling duo: Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucky-seventh-anniversary/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170817T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170722T003128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T003128Z
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SUMMARY:Anita Barrows + Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the Bay Area in 1966.  She holds Master’s degrees in english and italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology.  Her translations of poetry\, plays\, fiction and non-fiction from the French\, Italian and German have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently\, she has collaborated with Joanna any on translations three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke.  Six volumes of her poetry have been published\, including two by Kelsey Books (Exile and the current book\, We Are The Hunger).  Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation\, Bark\, Prairie Schooner\, and Bridges.  She has won awards from the national Endowment for the Arts and the Quarterly Review of Literature Contemporary Poetry Series.  Barrows lives in Berkeley\, where she is a tenured professor at the Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice.  She is a mother and a grandmother and she lives with a menagerie of dogs\, cats\, and birds. \nZach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project\, Curly Red Stories\, Unbroken Journal\, and Atticus Review. His debut novel\, What We Never Had\, was published in 2016 by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books.He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-barrows-zach-wyner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170818T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170818T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170817T041911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T041911Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Mejia + Natalie Enright
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another talent-filled Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Jessica Mejia and Natalie Enright\, with musical guest TBD. Emceed by Paul Corman-Roberts and curated by René Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about the performers: \nJessica Mejia is a scholar and poet based in San Francisco. She is finishing her MA in comparative literature at San Francisco State University with a focus on 20th Century Literature of the Americas\, and was selected by the California Pre-Doctoral Program as a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar for the 2017-18 academic year. She is an active performer and organizer for the Flor y Canto Literary Festival in the Mission. Her poetry explores the transformative nature of the family unit\, music as an element trauma and healing\, and the Salvadoran diaspora. She hopes one day to teach Latin American and U.S. poetry in any and every department possible\, all the while sharing her love of scholarship and the priceless experience of finding one’s local literary community. \nNatalie Enright is a poet in San Francisco\, originally from Kenya\, Africa. She writes and has published poetry in English\, French\, and Swahili. She is finishing her Master of Library and Information Science degree at San Jose State University with the goal of becoming a public children’s librarian. She currently volunteers at the Fisher Children’s Center in the Main library\, downtown San Francisco\, as a reading partner and provides homework help for grade school kids.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-mejia-natalie-enright/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170817T043744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T043744Z
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SUMMARY:A Reading in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus
DESCRIPTION:Steve Arntson Presents:\nAn Evening in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus (or\, What You Wanted All Along) \nBay Area writers and artists gather to create some good frickin energy. \nThe Lineup: Toreadah Mikell – Nazelah Jamison – Richard Loranger – Victor James Smith – Julian Mithra – Alison Luterman – Tom Stolmar – James Cagney – Allie Marini – Christine No \nAnd jazz with Karen Sudjian on voice and Jim Davidson on keyboards. \nHosted by the road demon himself\, Steve Arntson \nRefreshments will be served \nFree of charge \nPlease do stop by for a levitational experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-support-of-the-rehabilitation-of-venus/
LOCATION:East Bay Media Center\, 1939 Addison St\,\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170821T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170821T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170622T014107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T014107Z
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Dallett
DESCRIPTION:Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has been published online and in many print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she authored Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cassandra-dallett/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170823T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170721T235649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T235649Z
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SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowicz
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Rex Renee Leonowicz to the store to perform from when there is no one and there is everyone\, on Wednesday\, August 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: The multimedia performance acts as a touring funeral party\, using drag\, poetry\, music\, and visual art/digital media to create a kind of live memorial/archive that animates the book and brings its story to life to chart the personal\, political\, and cultural moments that are living\, dying\, and rebirthing in the book. Rex will perform poems from the book and drag versions of songs that influence the text. A video collage of drawings\, art maps\, and photos will stream in the background\, along with a soundtrack of music that influenced the work. The point of the music\, visual art\, maps\, and ephemera interspliced is to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, and triumph present in the work\, as well as to show evidence of communities that often are invisible or displaced. Part history lesson\, part mixtape\, part memorial\, part celebration\, the project blends genres to honor and illuminate resistance movements\, our heroes\, our experiences\, failures & successes in solidarity\, art\, and community love. \nABOUT THE BOOK: when there is no one and there is everyone is a full-length collection of poetry and illustrations set for release in Summer 2017 by Magic Helicopter Press. The collection is experienced as a collage-like mixtape of techniques\, influences\, pop references\, and city cultures that explores the messiness of identity\, relationship\, and resistance in an unjust world. Its biggest concern is with landscapes of public and private space\, specifically how gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out on the intimate geographies of bodies\, minds\, and cities Beyond this\, it’s a celebration of friendship\, freakdom\, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times. \nABOUT THE ARTIST: Rex Renee Leonowicz is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other. S/he holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Mills College and a B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies & Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowicz/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170823T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170805T004425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170805T004425Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents Dispatches From Lesbian America
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents readings by Joan Annsfire\, Xequina Maria Berber\, and Giovanna Capone from the anthology DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA on Wednesday\, August 23\, 7pm at the Nomadic Press: Uptown performance space\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland. Free refreshments and door prizes. A discussion of the anthology and book signing will follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/137277350195017 \nINFORMATION ON THE READERS: \nJOAN ANNSFIRE is a writer\, poet\, and retired librarian who lives in Berkeley. Her piece in Dispatches From Lesbian America is non-fiction\, based on her experience working at the San Francisco Water Department in the early Eighties. \nJoan’s memoir pieces have appeared most recently online in Identity Envy\, Read These Lips\, Aunt Lute Press\, and Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness. She has also been published in Lavender Review\, Sinister Wisdom\, The 13th Moon\, Bridges\, The Evergreen Chronicles\, and The Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly\, among other publications. \nHer poetry is in an upcoming anthology\, 11/9: The Fall of American Democracy\, as well as Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival\, and The Times They Were A- Changing. Headmistress Press published a chapbook of her poems\, Distant Music. \nIn her blog\, “Lavenderjoan\, somewhere under the rainbow\,” the personal and the political meet. \nXEQUINA MARIA BERBER is a storyteller\, writer\, artist\, former law librarian\, and now elementary school librarian. She came out during early middlessence and makes up for lost Gay time through her creative endeavors: short stories and comic strips celebrating Lesbian personalities and themes. She also rewrites songs to honor Dyke culture\, which are then performed for the community with her drag king partner “Johnny Magnolia.” \nShe is the author of two books\, Santora: The Good Daughter\, a Latina novel\, under the psuedonym Resurrección Cruz\, and The Mermaid Girl\, a tween and teen book\, published under her first name\, by Bedazzled Ink. She is also one of the editors of Dispatches From Lesbian America. A collection of her lesbian short stories and memoir\, The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis\, is due to come out this year. Many of her stories were inspired by her girlfriend’s life. \nXequina is also an artist and paints traditional Mexican retablos (miracle stories) and santos\, as well as themes of Mexican Magical Realism. She has degrees in literature\, art\, Women’s Spirituality\, and Library and Information Science. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their two bad cats. \nGIOVANNA CAPONE is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She was raised in an Italian-American neighborhood in Mt. Vernon\, New York\, whose strong Neapolitan influence still resonates in her life. \nHer work has appeared widely in various publications\, including Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent; Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood; Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry; Avanti Opolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus; Queer View Mirror 2\, Lesbian & Gay Short Fiction; What I Want From You: An Anthology of East Bay Lesbian Poets; and Fuori: Essays by Italian/American Lesbians and Gays. \nMost recently Giovanna edited the collection Words on Fire! An Anthology of Teen Voices as part of her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. \nGiovanna’s first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna See Women’s Performance Project\, in their first Dyke Drama Festival. She is also a mixed media collage artist and has exhibited her visual art in venues throughout the Bay Area.\nShe lives in Oakland\, where for many years she has taught poetry writing workshops to children and teens through California Poets in the Schools. Find out more at www.giovannacapone.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-presents-dispatches-from-lesbian-america/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170824T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170824T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170817T051153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T051153Z
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SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowitch Book Release/Funeral Party/Fundraiser: Oakland #2
DESCRIPTION:Join Rex Renee Leonowitch and Denise Benavides for a night of poetry\, drag\, music\, art\, feels\, and hype to celebrate the release of Rex’s new book of poetry and illustrations\, When There Is No One And There Is Everyone\, available for preorder here: http://magichelicopterpress.com/wtne.html \nThe event will feature readings and performances and be a funeral party using drag\, music\, poetry\, and visual art/digital media to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, triumph\, and fabulosity present in the work and life. \nIt’s also a fundraiser for Rex\, who is a poor trans disabled working artist who funded their book tour mostly by themselves and who is continuing their education in performance/theatre in the Fall in NYC and needs financial support for housing\, life expenses\, and tuition costs. \nREX RENEE LEONOWICZ is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other.\nhttp://www.rexylafemme.tumblr.com/ \nDENISE BENAVIDES is a performance artist\, poet\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the winter of 2016 by Kórima Press. For more information please visit www.denisebenavides.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowitch-book-releasefuneral-partyfundraiser-oakland-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170824T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170824T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170720T045247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T045247Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Melba Joyce Boyd\, M.L. Liebler\, + Brian Jabas Smith
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, editor\, and professor Melba Joyce Boyd’s book\, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press\, is a tribute to Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with whom she worked as an editor at Broadside Press and whose authorized biographer she became. Randall was poet laureate of Detroit\, a civil rights activist\, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Two of his poems\, one for the four little girls killed in the Alabama church bombing in Birmingham\, one for the assassination of President Kennedy\, were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965. Randall published them as broadsides\, so the press\, publishing chapbooks that opened out the work of African American writers into the canon of American literature\, was born. Boyd’s book\, connecting politics and art with the wider struggles of black America in that era\, is also a dialogue between poets and includes extensive interviews. She\, herself\, has published six books of poetry\, edited an anthology of Detroit poetry\, written scholarly books\, and produced and directed a documentary film on Randall and the press. \nM.L. Liebler is a celebrated poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. Most recent of his many books of poetry is I Want to Be Once; others include The Moon a Box and Written in Rain: New and Selected Poems\, 1985-2000. He’s edited many books\, ranging across labor politics\, music\, and poetry\, and his brand new one is Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond\, with a wide range of contributors\, including Greil Marcus and Al Young. \nBrian Jabas Smith’s debut book of fiction is Spent Saints & Other Stories. Jim Daniels says\, “In these fine stories\, Brian Smith’s direct\, natural\, story-telling voice rocks with the authority and grit of someone who’s been there and come back to tell the tale.” Smith is an award-winning journalist\, first as a staff writer and columnist for the Phoenix New Times and then as an editor for the Detroit Metro Times. His earlier career was as a songwriter who fronted rock’n’roll bands. He’s written for many performers\, including Alice Cooper.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-melba-joyce-boyd-m-l-liebler-brian-jabas-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170824T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170824T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170722T003418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T003418Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013)\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn was born and raised in Fresno. Currently\, she teaches and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, andA Public Space. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and Stanford University\, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. \nEmily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes\, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize at Tupelo Press. Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Apogee\, The Literary Review\, and elsewhere. For her poetry\, she has received awards and fellowships from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest\, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition\, The Home School in Miami\, Aspen Words\, New York University\, the University of Chicago\, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins\, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and is a PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, September 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170826T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170817T043251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T043251Z
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SUMMARY:15th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate poets who make things happen in our communities and to honor Naomi Helena Quiñonez with a Lifetime Achievement Award \nHost\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez \nInvocation of the Muse\nJohn Oliver Simon \nReaders\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLeticia Hernández-Linares\nCassandra Dallett\nTiff Dressen\nNancy Aidé González\nJuba Kalamka\nMarguerite Munoz\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nRené Vaz\nShelley Wong \nMilvia Street readers\nYoussef Ahalla\nJalyce Fairley\nFungai Gora\nJulian Mithra\nJulie Southworth \nCo-directed by MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman\nSponsored by the City of Berkeley and Berkeley City College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/15th-annual-berkeley-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Berkeley City College\, 2050 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170826T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170718T041431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T115531Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck + Jennifer Barone featuring at La Palabra Musical
DESCRIPTION:La Palabra Musical (The Musical Word)\, hosted by Avotcja! \nFeatured poets: Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate!)\, Jennifer Barone\, Kirk Lumpkin\, and N-Side the Healer reading from their latest work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shuck-jennifer-barone-featuring-at-la-palabra-musical/
LOCATION:Cesar E. Chavez Oakland Public Library\, 3301 East 12th Street\, Suite 271\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170826T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170815T115330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T115330Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: A "Confessional" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Reveal your skeletons and air your dirty laundry this month at Saturday Night Special! We want to hear your dirty secrets and burning confessions\, that thing you did\, that you shouldn’t have done. Come share your sins\, real or imagined\, yours or someone else’s. Our theme this month is: Confession. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur August features are: Vernon Keeve III and Joel Landmine\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, August 26th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nVernon Keeve III is a writer from Fredericksburg\, Virginia\, and a California-made educator. He currently teaches high school English and history in Oakland\, and has a book Southern Migrant Mixtape in its final stages of publication with Nomadic Press–look for it in the Fall. \nJoel Landmine’s work has never been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Yeah\, Well…\, his first collection of poems\, is available from Punk Hostage Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-confessional-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170827T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170827T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110947
CREATED:20170621T123348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T123348Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash tribute to "Heaven Was Detroit" w/ M.L. Liebler + Greil Marcus
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts a special installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, August 27th at 3pm. Editor M.L. Liebler and contributor Greil Marcus will be here to discuss Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nHeaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays\, and a few classics\, by widely known and respected music writers\, critics\, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in the Detroit music scene\, from rock to jazz and everything in between. With a foreword by the acclaimed rock writer Dave Marsh and iconic photos by Leni Sinclair\, the book features such well-known writers as Greil Marcus\, Jaan Uhelszki\, Al Young\, Susan Whitall\, Gary Graff\, John Sinclair\, and many others.\nDivided into nine sections\, the book moves chronologically through the early days of jazz in Detroit\, to the rock ‘n’ roll of the 1960s\, and up to today’s electronica scene\, with so many groundbreaking moments in between. This collection of cohesive essays includes Motown’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement through its side label\, Black Forum Records; Lester Bangs’s exemplary piece on Alice Cooper; the story behind the emergence of rap legend Eminem; and Craig Maki’s enlightening history on “hillbilly rock” – just to name a few. With a rich musical tradition to rival Nashville\, Detroit serves as the inspiration\, backdrop\, and playground for some of the most influential music artists of the past century.\nHeaven Was Detroit captures the essence of the Detroit music scene: the grit\, the spark\, the desire to tell a story set to the rhythm of the city. Fans of any music genre will find something that speaks to them in the pages of this collection. \nM. L. Liebler is an award-winning poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. He is the author of several books of poetry\, including I Want to Be Once\, and editor of the anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams. He is also co-editor of Bob Seger’s House and Other Stories. Liebler has taught at Wayne State University since 1980. \nGreil Marcus’s books include Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music\, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century\, and The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. He teaches at Berkeley and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-tribute-to-heaven-was-detroit-w-m-l-liebler-greil-marcus/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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